As the curling season is nearing its halfway point there have been many interesting developments as new teams continue to improve and reorganized teams get used to playing together.

With the doubles league being new this year all of the teams are new. For the first time since the beginning of the season the team of Cathy Murdock and Mike Strickland have been bumped out of first place.

This the result of a 9 – 5 loss at the hands of Cathy and Curtis McNeil that gives the couple the league lead. Kate Nicholson and Greg Tiesma have only one win this season but they have managed three ties, the latest a 5 – 5 deadlock with Karen Kan and Amelie Legace.

The big news in the Monday/Tuesday league this week was that Myles Murdock’s ‘Beach Bums’ team of Daniela Klicper, Tineasha Brenot and Erinn Lawrie got their first win of the year, a decisive 6 – 2 win over Greg Balina and ‘Rock Bunk’. Another so far winless team came oh so close to their maiden victory.

Peter Feagan and ‘Bruce’s Bunch’ took on the league’s top team, ‘Wild Things’ and came away with a well earned 8 – 8 tie.

Jan Simonson and ‘Dazed and Confused’ are now at the top of the league following their 9 – 4 win over Barb Graff’s ‘Black Dog’.

This was an important week in the Wednesday/Thursday league because based on the first eight weeks of the season the league will be split into ‘A’ and ‘B’ Divisions for the remainder of the year.

Based on previous results many teams had already determined which division they were destined for but three games had placing significance. Greg Bos lead his ‘Who’s the Bos’ team to a tight 8 – 7 win over Ron Smith and the ‘Rock Slingers’ putting his team in the ‘A’ Division and relegating the ‘Slingers’. Had the result been reversed the placing would have been as well.

A win over Vicki Culbert and the ‘Miss-a-Lot’s’ would have put Charlie Crawford and the ‘Ice Cubes’ in ‘A’ Division but they could only manage a tie, which dropped them into the ‘B’ Division. Ken Logtenberg and the ‘IceBergs’ needed a win to get into the ‘A’ and they got one 8 – 6 over Doug Yeo and ‘Communication Breakdown’.

In games that didn’t have a bearing on divisional placement Kevin Clark and ‘Kinda Dunn’ scored their second consecutive win, 8 – 6 over Steve Windsor and ‘Ramble On’.

At the top of the table Phil Foster and ‘Between the Sheets’ scored a 7 – 2 win over Camp Kintail to lead the ‘A’ group with a record of 7 and 1. Right behind them at 6 and 2 are ‘Tiesma Tarps’ and ‘Hot Rocks’ after the ‘Tarps’ 11 – 5 win left the two teams tied.

After all games were played there were five teams tied for places six through ten with as many wins as losses.

After considerable deliberation and discussion at league central it was decided to use the ‘Swiss Tie-Breaking System’ to determine the final divisional placing below: